22
Jul
2013
MOOCagogy: Assessment, Networked Learning, and the Meta-MOOC
“Building community doesn’t mean that learning happens.” ~ from an audience comment at InstructureCon 2013 Learning in a MOOC Instruction does not equate to learning. This... Read More
27
Jun
2013
Straining the Quality of MOOCs: Student Retention and Intention
“Learners are classified based on their patterns of interaction with video lectures and assessments, the primary features of most MOOCs to date.” — Rene F. Kizilcec, et... Read More
23
Jun
2013
The Rise of MOOCs and The Myth of Mass Exodus in Traditional Higher Ed
For those who follow the MOOC debate, every day is Armageddon: The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities, “The Year of... Read More
12
Jun
2013
Pedagogies of Scale
From all the jails the Boys and Girls Ecstatically leap— Beloved only Afternoon That Prison doesn’t keep They storm the Earth and stun the Air,... Read More
15
May
2013
A Manifesto for Community Colleges, Lifelong Learning, and Autodidacts
As some are raised a Catholic or an atheist or a vegetarian, I was raised an academic. The university always had about it a mystique,... Read More
24
Apr
2013
Of Machine Guns and MOOCs: 21st Century Engineering Disasters
Victorian hubris opined, “All that can be invented has been invented,” and so we entered the 20th century emboldened with a Titanic which was unsinkable,... Read More
07
Apr
2013
#digped Storify: Questioning Writing MOOCs
Our #digped chat about teaching composition massively (either within a MOOC, or as part of a “MOOCified” on-ground or hybrid course) was first and foremost inspired by... Read More
02
Apr
2013
Making Composition Massive: a #digped Discussion
This Friday, April 5 from 1:00 – 2:00pm Eastern (10:00 – 11:00am Pacific), Hybrid Pedagogy will host a Twitter discussion under the hashtag #digped to consider the place of... Read More
28
Mar
2013
Will MOOCs Work for Writing?
When faced with a complex, fluid, and potentially uncontrollable situation, I’ve often heard people say, “It’s like herding cats.” I can think of no more... Read More
18
Mar
2013
Failure, Part of the Creative Process: Anya Kamenetz Twinterview
On Friday, March 8, Pete Rorabaugh interviewed Anya Kamenetz, author of DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Change in Higher Education (2010). Kamenetz’s writing... Read More
15
Jan
2013
Learn Like an Arachnid: Why I’m MOOCifying
Every fall when I ask my first year students, “Why did you choose the College of Environmental Science and Forestry?” at least one will answer, “I... Read More
19
Nov
2012
A MOOC is not a Thing: Emergence, Disruption, and Higher Education
A MOOC is not a thing. A MOOC is a strategy. What we say about MOOCs cannot possibly contain their drama, banality, incessance, and proliferation.... Read More
27
Aug
2012
Udacity and Online Pedagogy: Players, Learners, Objects
This sentence is a learning object. Wayne Hodgins, the “father of learning objects,” first came up with the idea for them while watching his son play... Read More
24
Aug
2012
Learning as Performance: MOOC Pedagogy and On-ground Classes
I once heard an interesting story about my former collegiate marching-band instructor, Dr. Richard Greenwood. According to legend, Greenwood once held up the score to... Read More
13
Aug
2012
A MOOC by Any Other Name
MOOCs: Changing Modes of Pedagogy [original Google Doc] As Bonnie Stewart explains, massive open courses are not a new concept. In the 1970s, Michel Foucault taught courses for... Read More
11
Aug
2012
Audrey Watters Wrestles with MOOCs
Pete Rorabaugh chatted with the globe-trotting Audrey Watters about the institutional questions that MOOCs raise. Watters is an ed tech journalist and the author/editor of... Read More
09
Aug
2012
#digped Storify Pt. 2: A Backchannel in the Backchannel
This is the second installment of the Storify of the Hybrid Pedagogy #digped Twitter discussion for Friday, August 3, 2012: “Broadcast Learning.” This installment covers... Read More
08
Aug
2012
#digped Storify Pt. 1: We Interrupt This Broadcast . . .
In his article, “Broadcast Education: A Response to Coursera,” Sean asks us to consider, “If online education has made so much progress, why isn’t it... Read More
01
Aug
2012
Broadcast Learning: A #digped Discussion
The conversation curated and archived in two parts via Storify: Pt. 1: We Interrupt This Broadcast… and Pt. 2: A Backchannel in the Backchannel. This Friday, August 3... Read More
26
Jul
2012
Broadcast Education: a Response to Coursera
Coursera is silly. Educational technology news has been all a-flutter over the last few months about the work that Coursera is doing to bring higher education... Read More
23
Jul
2012
The March of the MOOCs: Monstrous Open Online Courses
MOOCs are a red herring. The MOOC didn’t appear last week, out of a void, vacuum-packed. The MOOC has been around for years, biding its time.... Read More
